Coloring of butter substitute



I Feb.-8, 1938. Q R M 2,107,851

COLORING 0F BUTTER SUBSTITUTE Fi'led June 29, 1936 fid nz Zita/7112 P a ar a... was y 2,107,851

unl'rsn. STATES PATENT orrlca 1.10am comma or sums svas'rrru'ra Frederick E. Boehm, roads. on

Application June so. use, SerialNo. sum 1 Claim. (01. ail-14s) This invention relates to re-working material, directing the rolling pressing action away from especially for mixing, as to change the appear-; the throat I and pushing into the pocket during ance or taste of a food product. this rolling.

This invention has utility when. adopted for As in the instance of oleomargarine, such may g re-working' of butter, or spread substitute for be taken at a chill approaching freezing. This a F .butter as *oleomargarine to improve the butterrather brit't'le condition for the spread substance .I like color or milk with control against oily tendis-one requiring much more strenuous attention encies, while of form-holding appearance propat the re-working. v There is not a great amount erties'normal forfgood butter as produced from of heat conductivity from the hand of the oper- 1o cow's milk. ator. It is more an action'of friction and preslo Referring to the. drawing: sure, but with such a chilled portion upon which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of-an embodiment of to start, manipulated only by one hand, it would the re-worker pocket; I require approximately three minutes time for Fig. 2 is a section on the line II-II, Fig. 1'; eil'ective thorough mixing. However, if the Fig. 3 is a section on the line III-III, Fig. 11; spread material I temperature be more nearly 16 Fig. 4 is a fragmentary viewof a stage or step around 50' to 55 F., it is not so brittle and may in the re-worker operation of thedevice, say as readily take up either liquid or powder coloring, receiving a block, of uncolored oleomargarine to so that this re-working can be etlfected within be-colored therein; Y one-halfminute. There seems to be a holding of 2o Fig. '5 is a view of one-hand mixing set-up in some of the air into the body for taste advantage go the rolling pressing operation; -and of entrained air therewith on the resulting Fig. 6 is aview of a two-hand set-up for roll- I product. ing pressing operation. Furthermore, as against attempt to introduce Container or pocket is shown as having body the color by working into the quantity or body providing main chamber 2, open side 3, bounded by a fork or spoon, even with such fork or spoon as by marginal reinforcing rim 4, with throat 5 operation resulting in an unstreaked or unspotted therefrom toward the chamber portion 2. There. product, the result of this pocket operation here- 15 h P vi d an Open side 3 for this chamber. under not only is without streaks and without The material is desirably soft, flexible and of spots, but with a yellowish color more nearly aprubber-like, elastic properties, resistant to atproaching milk or' true butter appearance. This 30 tack or impartin odor toa charge 1' u itu condition is one eil'ected without melting or o b l ed through the p ng 3 as S bringing about an oily appearance in the prodf ning is shortened toward the chamber 2 by (wt due to the temperaturerise, but is in the roll I of this rim along the throat 6. production of the mass as a solid spreadable with At this introduction of the spreadable solid to wholesome, attributes of appearance and taste im- 35 b Iii-W i m to be milled therewith proved beyond normal butter color response by butter. coloring {may be added either before or the fork or spoon method, This mixing, de-

after the solid is introduced. With the-solid in-- scribed as for color ingredient, may extend to troduce int h pocket ch r 1 8 hr other products or even to other spreads, whether as section I, may beunrolled back to have color not a food product. 4o lapsed throat 9 grasped by hand ll of the oper- As the manipulation has been eiiective, the ator, while companionhand Il may as to the charging operation is reversed. That is,' the knu s. p l r other po be p se or opening Us. as to the rim 4, rolled back on the desirablyv rolling pressaway from the-throat I chamber 2 of the body and the solid expelled 5 .in re-shaping and re-formin'g the body 6 of this therefrom as a mass unit having attributes even spreadablematerial. 'In the instance the user against sticking under certain temperatures of m y wish touseboth hands, the collapsed throat operation in which it holds its unity. As the con- I m y be b und by rubber band I! wr pp d theretainer has been used, it is desirable to rinse such about. and keep it sanitary against collecting odors espeso The collapsed threat 9. while it mergestoward cially for food products. q se k en s ou uts de a r; does ot p eve t t e ex- What is claimed and it is desired to secure by pelling of surplus air therethrough in the working Letters Patent is: "operation, but it is eflective against the spread The method of re-working into a butter sub-- materialof solid 6 exuding therefr mwev r, stitute homogeneous spreadable solid with air as this exuding action is more nicely avoided by comprising'introducing a pre-moided body of the s tainer walls in a direction away from the container opening in re-torming and re-shaping the solid: with simultaneous expelling of excess air from the container and thereafter expelling the re-worked, re-tormed solid in the. re-tormed,

press-eflected shape given to it in the container. 5

FREDERICK E. BOEIIM. 

